Test Automation Engineer (Java+Kotlin)

About us:

Metro Global Solution Center (MGSC) is internal solution partner for METRO, a €29.8 Billion international wholesaler with operations in 32 countries through 625 stores & a team of 91,000 people globally. Metro operates in a further 10 countries with its Food Service Distribution (FSD) business and it is thus active in a total of 34 countries.

MGSC, location wise is present in Pune (India), Düsseldorf (Germany) and Szczecin (Poland). We provide HR, Finance, IT & Business operations support to 31 countries, speak 24+ languages and process over 18,000 transactions a day. We are setting tomorrow’s standards for customer focus, digital solutions, and sustainable business models. For over 10 years, we have been providing services and solutions from our two locations in Pune and Szczecin. This has allowed us to gain extensive experience in how we can best serve our internal customers with high quality and passion. We believe that we can add value, drive efficiency, and satisfy our customers.

Website: https://www.metro-gsc.in
Company Size: 600-650 Headquarters: Pune, Maharashtra, India Type: Privately Held Inception: 2011

Role Overview
We are seeking a highly skilled Test Automation Engineer to join the Pricing Squad within our Pricing Platform organization. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining automated test frameworks for complex distributed systems, with particular focus on high-performance, high-volume computing, and high-scale backend services. This role involves building robust automation pipelines, validating model-driven behaviors, ensuring system reliability through automated quality gates, and collaborating closely with full stack developers, backend engineers, and product teams to ensure end-to-end quality across the platform.

Key Responsibilities
Automation & Quality Engineering

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable automated test suites for API, integration, end-to-end, and workflow-level testing of pricing solutions.
• Build automation frameworks that validate correctness, robustness, safety, and determinism in pricing calculation and validation
• Develop synthetic datasets, fixtures, and mocks to replicate complex pricing scenarios and edge cases.

Pricing-Specific Testing

• Lead the team to automate evaluation pipelines for pricing outputs, including functional tests, regression checks, safety tests, and model-behavior verification.
• Collaborate with Engineers to integrate evaluation metrics into CI/CD systems.

Platform Integration

• Work with backend and platform teams to ensure test coverage across microservices, feature flags, workflow orchestrators, and
• event-driven systems.
• Contribute to testable system design and ensure new features include clear acceptance criteria and automation strategies.

CI/CD & Release Quality

• Integrate automated testing pipelines into GitHub Actions (or equivalent), ensuring fast feedback cycles and continuous verification.
• Implement quality gates, flakiness detection, and test result analytics to improve reliability and reduce manual QA overhead.
Participate in release readiness reviews and ensure that automated checks provide full coverage for functional and non-functional requirements.

Must-Have Qualifications
Education

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Work Experience & Skills

• 5+ years of experience in Test Automation Engineering, Software Development in Test (SDET), or similar roles.
• Proven hands-on experience building automation frameworks at scale (Python or JavaScript/TypeScript preferred).
• Strong experience testing distributed systems, microservices, asynchronous workflows, and APIs.
• Proficiency with test frameworks such as PyTest, Playwright, Jest, or similar.
• Strong experience with CI/CD (GitHub Actions preferred).
• Strong skills in debugging, root-cause analysis, and building reliable automation pipelines.
• Able to lead engineers to grow Test Automation Knowledge
• Excellent communication skills in English (written and spoken).

Other Requirements

• Strong analytical mindset and ability to reason rigorously about system behavior.
• Ability to operate in a fast-paced environment with evolving AI technologies and requirements.
• Passion for automation, reproducibility, and engineering excellence.
Collaborative approach and willingness to work closely with AI research and product teams.

Nice-to-Have

• Familiarity with synthetic data generation, dataset curation, or annotation workflows.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Understanding of safety frameworks, model confidence scoring, or risk-based testing in AI systems.

Required Skills:

Java/Groovy/Kotlin + TestNg/JUnit

• UI Web - All framework types (Selenide/Serenity - with/wo cucumber)
• UI Mobile - Appium
• API - restassured, BO/Client design, Spring